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Papyrus 2485
- Record Id:
- 040-002105519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001a5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470955.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2485
- Title:
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Codex Theodosianus VII 8.9-14 (P.Oxy. XV 1813, TM 64881, LDAB 6120)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary leaf from a parchment codex, containing the Theodosian Code VII.8.9-10 on one side, and VII.8.10-14 on the other. The careful layout and script suggest that this was an official copy of the code (Ammirati, The Latin Book (2010)).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105519 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2485 : Codex Theodosianus VII 8.9-14 (P.Oxy. XV 1813, TM 64881, LDAB 6120) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1297]/040-002105519
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary leaf from a parchment codex of large format and fine quality, with some holes in places; one column of 23 lines survives on each page; originally, there were 31 lines to the page. The upper margin is ample and measures 63 mm. Housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470955.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0529
- Date Range:
- 500-529
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 181 x 91 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 150 mm.
Script: Calligraphic uncial of the ‘B-R’ type, almost round.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Constantinople (?), Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 189
P.Oxy. XV 1813 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 366.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XV (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1922), pp. 214-26, no. 1813, with plate.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 156, no. 189.
Elias A. Lowe, Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the 9th century, 2: Great Britain and Ireland (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935; 1972), no. 211.
Robert Cavenaile, Corpus Papyrorum Latinarum (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1958), pp. 192-93, no. 98.
Thomas S. Pattie, Eric G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board, 1974), p. 17, no. 16.
Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), p. 27.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 189.
Serena Ammirati, ‘Per una storia del libro latino antico. Osservazioni paleografiche,bibliologiche e codicologiche sui manoscritti latini di argomento legaledalle origini alla tarda antichità’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 40 (2010), 55-110 (p. 78).
Serena Ammirati, ‘The Latin book of legal content: a significant type in the history of the ancient book’, in Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrology, Genève 16-21 août 2010, edited by Paul Schubert (Genève: Droz 2012), pp. 19–25 (pp. 22-23).
Serena Ammirati, Sul libro latino antico: ricerche bibliologiche e paleografiche (Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra, 2015), pp. 66, 69, 92, 93, 102.
Mario Varvaro, ‘Per la datazione del palinsesto veronese delle Institutiones di Gaio (Verona, B. Cap., Cod. XV)’, Scriptorium, 69 (2015), 79-103 (p. 94).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)